Filipino Nurses in Japan

During the 16th International Conference on the Future of Asia hosted by the Nihon Kezai Shimbun on May 20, Yukio Hatoyama, Japan's Prime Minister, said that their country should open up to the world once more, including the more non-Japanese nurses.

The Prime Minister added that Japan should boost the number of foreign nurses and think means to allow them to help their citizen when their required the nurses to speak the same mother toungue.

And in order to help the family members of foreign nurses in Japan, they will about to develop educational facilities and enhance Japanese language educational institutions.

Hatoyama gave such statements after 116 Filipino nurses and caregivers flew to Japan last May 9 under the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA).

In the said agreement, Hatoyama said that the development of the domestic environment related to (protecting) life and systemic reforms to ‘open up the nation' further in lifestyle and social system aspects are as important, or indeed in some cases even more important, than economic measures such as trade liberalization.

Under the JPEPA, the candidates are given a maximum of three opportunities to take the national nursing examinations so that the Japanese government may extend their temporary stay in Japan.

With this agreement, foreign nurses, especially Filipino nurses will now have more job opportunities to work in other countries like Japan. [via globalnation.inquirer.net]